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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue is two-fold, I think. One is that the lower grades are bursting at the seams even after they've already moved grades 4-6 to the Adams campus. The other is that making it a neighborhood school with current boundaries is interfering with the original model & mission of the school as a dual language program based on 50% English-dominant/ 50% Spanish-dominant population. The vast majority of in-boundary families are English-dominant (mostly English-only) families. The younger grades skew heavily towards English dominant. The school is having a more difficult time adding Spanish-dominant kids to the population. This results in the model being diluted to a "bilingual light." To compound the problem, the English dominant families tend to take their kids out between grades 4 and 6, leading to a de-population and lack of support for the middle school bilingual program. By the later grades, the school skews heavily Hispanic.

IMHO, for the Oyster dual language to truly work, the school should not be a neighborhood school, but rather an application-only magnet. Only that way can it truly maintain the benefits of the 50/50 program and ensure a population that is truly committed to bilingualism through 8th grade.[/quote]

This. Also, the immersion charters should be able to modify their charters to allow preference for native speakers. [/quote]

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